Maine Memory Network

Hope
by Buddy Bieler

Buddy reflects on the experience of being incarcerated over the last sixteen years.

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

Used, Abused, Battered, and Confused
by Anonymous (Maine Correctional Center)

The experience of domestic violence and the criminal justice system in Maine

Matt Plummer's Story
by Matt Plummer

Matt reflects on how it felt to be released from prison and the work that remained ahead.

Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide

I feel like I am serving the sentence with him
by Nicole Lund

An officer reprimands a visitor for her attire, later suspending her visits for non-compliance.

An Asian American Account
by Zabrina

An account from a Chinese American teen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Childhood Trauma Caused by Childhood Incarceration
by Buddy Bieler

Buddy reflects on trauma he experienced at the Maine Youth Center Special Management Unit as a child

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars